Wistful posters & prints

The Past, 1892 Walter Langley

Young Girl Seated, 1885 Pierre Auguste Renoir

Lucy Hessel in a Black Velvet Ribbon, c.1921-25 Edouard Vuillard

Portrait of a young woman Robert Buhler

The Present, 1845 Charles Robert Leslie

Girl in a Yellow Straw Hat Friedrich von Amerling

Margaret Fraser, actress Lizzie Caswall Smith

A Gypsy Girl, 1880 George Elgar Hicks

A Young Girl with Daisies, 1889 Pierre Auguste Renoir

Longing, 2015 Silvia Pastore

Eugenie Maria Wynne, detail Stuart Cox

The Pained Heart, or 'Sigh No More, Ladies', 1868 Arthur Hughes

Girl in Black, 1918 Amedeo Modigliani

The Rift Within the Lute, 1861-62 Arthur Hughes

3 children lying on the beach at the jersey shore Anonymous

Study of a woman reading Jacques-Emile Blanche

1930s woman leaning in wooden chair on beach wearing printed dress holding magazine looking thoughtful Anonymous

The Angel in the House Julia Margaret Cameron

Miss Grace Lane Reinhold Thiele

Illustration for the poem 'Mariana' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1875 Julia Margaret Cameron

Farewell at the Seafront, 1891 Alfred Emile Stevens

Spring Carnations Francis Hunt Throop

Portrait of Dorothy Morland, 1937 Mark Gertler

Flowers from the Woods J.O. Bank

Gathering Firewood by the shore of a lake, 1885 Alexander Mann

Lady Jane Long, 1793 Thomas Lawrence

Longing for Home Oscar Gustav Rejlander

Memories Frederic Lord Leighton

Illustration for the poem 'Maud' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1865 Julia Margaret Cameron

Vera Fyodorovna Komissarzhevskaya, Russian actress, c1900 Karl Karlovich Bulla

The Return After Three Days Julia Margaret Cameron

Portrait of Madame Vaussard Claude-Marie Dubufe

Adrienne Lecouvreur engraved by Pierre Drevet Charles Antoine Coypel

Faraway Thoughts Ernest Walbourn

A softened lustre in her eye, all crimson like the rose, scarce tinged her cheek, 1866 Alfred Hassam

The Canary, 1913 William McGregor Paxton